The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
New York view of the city skyline from troop transport RMS Queen Mary. Arriving UK possibly Liverpool. Ships entering and departing Portsmouth harbour England taken from HMS Dolphin Naval Submarine Training Depot. The harbour was busy since this was after the D-Day landings in Normandy. Ships include Landing Craft Infantry loaded with vehicles destined for France. A sloop ? and then Motor Torpedo Boats (MBT) leaving the harbour. S-Class destroyer HMS Serapis (Pennant G94) and then Lend Lease Buckley class destroyer escort HMS Stockham entering the harbour. Group shot of submariner trainees. Mr Bradbrookes poses for the camera at Ringwood. View from submarine in the Sound of Mull and straits of Corryvreckan not land covered in snow. Royal Navy U Class submarine under way in the Sound of Mull. Bradbrookes getting into a car. U Class Submarine HMS Unsparing practicing basin dive at Tilbury. Taken from depot ship showing three submariner officers left to right 1st Lieutenant Harry Straw RN, Lieutenant John Fenton the Commanding Officer and unidentified Australian officer on the 4 inch gun deck of HMS Unsparing feeding sea birds and posing for camera at Scapa Flow. View looking down HMS Unsparing from HMS Cyclops submarine depot Ship at the port of Rothesay. View of coast line. [End B&W Colour begins). Submarine passing through Burnt Isles passage. Views of snow covered coastline. Looking down from the conning tower to the stern of the sub under way. Views of coast with RN ensign and signal flags occasionally fluttering into the scene. Stern shot of Unsparing and then bow shot showing the foreplanes upright.Wide shot of Rothesay harbour showing the HMS Cyclops the depot ship. Telephoto of subs moored next to HMS Cyclops. RN submariners in town pose for the camera. View of HMS Unsparing moored in the Tobermory harbour taken from the Western Isles Hotel. Wide of the harbour.
HMAS Voyager and crew in the Mediterranean, circa mid 1940. Alexandria or Cairo, car trip through the city. Various scenes of parks, buildings etc. At sea, long shot of a destroyer underway at speed.
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. 1940. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE FLEET DESTROYER HMS JANUS IN HARBOUR, MOORED ALONGSIDE HMS MOHAWK. THE SHIP IS PAINTED IN AN UNOFFICIAL CAMOUFLAGE SCHEME WHICH INCLUDES THE PAINTIN
An amateur film taken by R V Slattery while serving on the Royal Australian Navy Majestic class aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. Shows de Havilland Sea Venom jet fighters catapult take offs from HMAS
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. 1940-07-20. STARBOARD BROADSIDE VIEW OF THE CRUISER HMAS SYDNEY (II1) (EX HMS PHAETON) ENTERING HARBOUR TO THE CHEERS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET AFTER THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ACTION O
John Reid took this film in 1941 while serving as a Seaman ASDIC operator with HMAS Napier which was then part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla British Mediterranean Fleet. On leave in Cairo showing the
A promotional film produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit for the Department of the Navy. The film features some of the new ships, aircraft and weapons in service or destined for service w
